Liber E-Clairvoyance
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Any of you guys have good results with this experiment? I have tried it a couple of times and only got 3 cards guessed exactly. Is there a technique for this? Does the card you are trying to guess just pop into your head? How much time do you spend trying to guess each individual card?
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although I haven't done that particular experiment, whenever I do any clairvoyant work I normally clear my mind, and wait for the impression of my target. Trying to see something, as if I had seen it with my eyes doesn't work. I just wait for the impression of what I need. I'll try that experiment over the course of the next week, and post my results.
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@Vod-Vil said
"Any of you guys have good results with this experiment? I have tried it a couple of times and only got 3 cards guessed exactly. Is there a technique for this? Does the card you are trying to guess just pop into your head? How much time do you spend trying to guess each individual card?"
Michael's advice is good. Also, not everyone has the knack for this one. (It's taught in the A.'.A.'. Probationer grade but not tested at any point.)
Start by not trying to guess the exact card. Go for the suit. The four suits have 14 cards each, and the Trumps have 22, so the odds aren't quite one-fifth, but close. Using that crude one-fifth or 20% approximation (because the difference isn't much if you calculate the odds exactly), out of 78 cards you'd expect to get 16 right (presuming that you weren't pumping up the odds artificially by guessing Trumps a disproportionate number of times). If you were 7 above or below the mean expectation, that would be a statistically significant score (exceeding the 20-to-1 or 5% level of unlikelihood).
Generally, most people do better with first impressions. When I've done it (years ago) I would spend perhaps 5 seconds on each card and usually got about half of them right.
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There's this odd Museum of the Mysteries place up the street from me that mainly features "proof" of Bigfoot sightings and that kind of thing.. I wandered in once when the caretaker was using those cards I've seen in movies with waves, a circle, square etc. to test for ESP. I gave it a try and only got like 3 out of 20 or so but she said I was close to 50% correct on calling the next card drawn instead of the one she was holding up for me. I figure it makes sense from my practices of drawing a tarot card each day since I feel where or which card to draw and I likely blocked automatically the thought she was trying to project at me sort of defensively. I would definately say clear your mind and keep it blank then allow a word or image to arise without thinking. Thinking about it or second guessing leads me astray usually and I'm no good at statistics or probability but there's certainly methods used by professional poker players successfully...
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@Vod-Vil said
"Any of you guys have good results with this experiment? I have tried it a couple of times and only got 3 cards guessed exactly. Is there a technique for this? Does the card you are trying to guess just pop into your head? How much time do you spend trying to guess each individual card?"
with me i posted the results in my diary and noted any same suit,same number result but eventually i could "see" the impression in mind's eye of the design of which card it was (was using A E Waite pack which has idiosyncratic designs for each card)
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Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
Oops! I didn't know this was here, and recently opened a new thread with similar content under "Magick."
Would one of the moderators be so kind as to move it over... ? It is under the heading "ESP."
Thanks!
Love is the law, love under will.
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"Magick" is actually a better location for it. This is a specifically magical, non-mystical technique.
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93 Vod-Vil,
I have had some success with tatwa cards. You may wish to try to do some work with those. They are, for me, easier to pick up on than tarot.- Danny N.
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